53 GEORGE III. Cap. CXXV.
[12th July.1813.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to give further Encouragement to the Silk Manufacturers of Great Britain; be it therefore enacted by the King's. Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,and by Authority of the same, Bounties allowed on the Exportation Stuffs on Silk ornamented with Embroidery, &c.;That from and after the Twenty-fifth Day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the same Bounties which by the Laws in Force are payable respective upon the Exportation from Great Britain of Stuffs of Silk mixed with Gold or Silver, Stuffs of Silk mixed with Inkle or Cotton, and Stuffs of Silk and Worsted, shall be allowed and paid on such Stuffs respectively, although the same may be ornamented with Embroidery, Tambour, Needle Work, Lace, or Fringe, provided the Ornaments on or attached to the Stuffs mixed with Gold or Silver, and likewise the Stuffs of Silk only, or of Silk, Gold, and. Silver, or either or all of them, and that the Ornaments on or attached to the Stuffs of Silk mixed with Inkle or Cotton, and likewise to the Stuffs of Silk mixed with Worsted, are of Silk, Inkle, Cotton, Worsted, or either or all of them.
And on the Exportation of Ribbons mixed with Inkle or Cotton.II. And be it further enacted; That the Bounty which by the Laws in Force is payable upon the Exportation of Stuffs of Silk mixed with Inkle or Cotton shall be allowed and paid on Ribbons made of Silk mixed with Inkle or Cotton: And such Bounties respectively shall be paid and allowed in the same Manner, Conditions. and subject to the same Conditions, Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as are directed and provided by the Laws in Force with respect to any other Bounty: on Manufactures of Silk exported from Great Britain, so far as the same are applicable and not hereby altered: Provided always, that no Bounty shall be paid or allowed on any of the said Silk Manufactures, unless the Value of the Goods at the Port of Exportation is at least Four Times the Amount of the Bounty claimed thereon.
53 GEORGE III. Cap. CXL.
[13th July 1813.]